Zahrat Al Khaleej September 15, 2019

How do you benefit from women’s support?
All women are beneficiaries and what we see, despite our self-esteem as women, given how much distortion occurs in the media against women and their presentation of models that are offensive to women, and this does not mean that all Arab women are perfect in everything they do. And when they put forward a good model for women, they do not stand by it, and they try to send a message that these are weak models or their right to be (ideal woman) is underestimated.
Mix things up

• Does the woman not bear a part of this role?
Certainly, because it has accepted that it is a commodity and appears in disrespectful programs, which is what I mentioned in the “Forum for Humanitarian Initiatives” that we live in an era of ugliness. When we became in the era of openness, we attracted everything that is ugly and bad from the West. We are Arab peoples who are not culturally prepared to distinguish between the positive and the negative and we mix things together.

• In the era of technology and social media, how do you evaluate the phenomenon of fascists and influences?
A while ago, I was browsing the Instagram platform with my daughter, and I saw a teenage girl showing off her charms and having a large number of followers. I asked my daughter what you think of this?. Note that my daughters are studying in Canada and have Canadian citizenship, but their morals are based on taboos, and they can differentiate between right and wrong, and they still have the culture of shame in the time of no shame.
She literally said to me: “This is disgusting.” The fact is that such girls do this to achieve the largest number of followers, and it does not matter how they earn a living, whether it is right or wrong. The trend of “Social Media” has become helping people to achieve financial gains, so they are ready to do anything through these sites to earn money.

Media expose
• The UAE recently celebrated the Emirati Women’s Day. How do you see its progress?
I read a while ago about three Emirati women who reached an important stage in the field of aircraft manufacturing. Emirati women are among those who have succeeded in this field and in racing in all fields, and this is all from the efforts and support of the leadership. Therefore, I always say that the advancement of the people is the advancement of their rulers, since the leadership in the UAE is wise, it is natural for the people to develop, especially women. Leadership run things intelligently and in a correct manner and they know that if they develop and support women, they will help in the development of society.

• Saudi women have achieved a set of achievements, what is she lacking today?
It is not a question of what is she lacking, let’s look at the achievements that have been made. They really deserve appreciation for the Kingdom’s government and for the Saudi women who take these achievements and implement them in a classy and respectful manner, which encourages legislators to provide more for this trustworthy woman.

• What about the Lebanese woman who demands many rights, and what is your role and the role of the organization and the Arab women’s campaign in supporting them?
Unfortunately, the image of the Lebanese woman in general in all the media, is looked at as strong in form and not in content. In fact, the most oppressed woman is the Lebanese woman, knowing that socially she appears to have all her rights because she meets men with her work in society, but in the laws she does not get any rights at all, we focus on this issue through our hard work that was when I created the Women’s Program model in which many important Lebanese women finished the tasks, who have reached a global level with their achievements, and I do not know perhaps the Lebanese media is to blame as it is the media (exposing) the Lebanese woman and insulting her image wherever she arrived and emerged, and no one knows anything about her, they are satisfied with seeing her in the same image.
Social Responsibility Queen »
The “Queen – Queen of Social Responsibility” program is one of the most important activities of the Arab women’s campaign, and the program is looking for the queen of social responsibility among the many Arab girls who have devised humanitarian initiatives to serve their communities, whose second season was launched in late August 2019 from Dubai as part of a workshop ” Humanitarian Initiatives Forum” with the participation of the heads of 23 humanitarian initiatives from 14 Arab countries.
About the campaign, Zain El-Din says: “The campaign seeks to improve the image of women in the media, support and empower them, and we also discuss all women’s issues through the media. We have several projects and television programs, including the “Queen – Queen of Social Responsibility” program, which highlights women personalities who provided humanitarian initiatives to support society and assistance and go hand in hand with governments. We shed light on them in order to achieve two goals, the first is to motivate the community to do the same, and secondly, to highlight the role of women in the development of society.”